Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Roger Stritmatter

A Quintessence of Dust

Written at the time he was a graduate student, Professor Roger Stritmatter provides an update on his analysis of the marginalia in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s copy of Edward de Vere’s 400 year-old Geneva Bible.

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Response to Smithsonian Magazine regarding Shakespeare’s Bible

In response to mis-representations about the significance of Professor Stritmatter’s work on the Edward de Vere Bible by both the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Smithsonian Magazine, an article and letter of rebuttal to the Smithsonian appeared in the spring 1995 Shakespeare Oxford Society newsletter.

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Shakespeare’s Good Book

Mark Anderson writes an editorial for a local newspaper that presents a compelling (but dated) summary of the case for Edward de Vere as the true author of the works of the Bard.

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Whalen reviews Hope & Holston

Review of The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Authorship Theories, Second Edition by Warren Hope and Kim Holston. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Company, 2009.

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Six new BC editors

Brief Chronicles General Editor Roger Stritmatter reported this news about the publicaton: Editors of the Shakespeare Fellowship’s new online peer reviewed scholarly journal of authorship

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A Matter of Small Consequence

Roger Stritmatter takes a close look at Terry Ross’s essay on “What George Puttenham Really Said” in The Arte of English Poesie, and concludes that Mr. Ross is himself more guilty of a “carelessness with evidence” than the Oxfordians he rails against.

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Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Comedies

This review (by Roger Stritmatter) of Prof. Shaheen’s 1993 book was first published in The Elizabethan Review. Stritmatter uses his continuing research into Edward de Vere’s bible for reference points in reviewing and commenting on Shaheen’s latest work.

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